Body heat to Heat up Premises + other atypicals for Carbon Neutrality!! by waghhm

Hi Hermant, Thank you for submitting your proposal! Your suggestions are very innovative and forward thinking. Your proposal would be strengthened if you narrowed the scope (e.g. focused on either human body heat for warmth or waste to biogas production) and provided more details on how this would work-- including rough cost estimates, net energy consumption/production, and net emissions. You may also want to incorporate building retrofits into your proposal to create a more insulated and airtight building envelope that would effectively trap body heat. The Passivhaus Institut may provide some inspiration to this end. Thanks and I look forward to reading your revised proposal! Jamie

Water in over-head tanks flows down for everyone to utilize, but needs to be pushed into tanks using energy. To utilize energy stored in overhead tanks, installation of generators which utilize the force of down-flowing water to generate electricity could be considered in each household. This could be done at main storage tanks as well. Nothing is destroyed in this universe, only form is changed; energy is converted into matter & matter into energy. Why not to recover energy stored into water in the overhead tanks!

Nevertheless, I shall try to do it...

ISO New England provides information on 'generation mix' in the region. link not working. suggest solution.

Respected Sir, Thanks a lot. I tried. But ! "This Webpage is not available".

Hi Hermant, Oliver´s link worked for me, so perhaps the site was down for a while.

To, Oliver Sellers-Garcia, Respected Sir, The Link is still not working, could you kindly suggest a solution, please.

Thanks again. I tried to access it, but, 'This web page is not available'.. A bit perplexing. Any way.. Thanks.

Using Fruit-Seeds (considered as waste) for most beneficial purposes for planet & mankind as shown in https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1300103/planId/1310401 would be one of the best steps towards circular economy !

Very nice proposal. Grazing human and all other possible sources of energy / heat within a building aiming net zero energy requirement is a challenge. Would be keen to read more on this proposal in line with the recommendation of Jamie (Fellow). You may also look at www.transsolar.com and many more initiatives are underway. Bests. Manohar

However I found just now interesting articles which say, "Dull, dark-colored home exteriors absorb 70% to 90% of the radiant energy from the sun that strikes the home’s surfaces. Some of this absorbed energy is then transferred into your home by way of conduction, resulting in heat gain." .. "About a third of the unwanted heat that builds up in your home comes in through the roof." "White exterior walls absorb less heat than dark walls." "Roughly 40% of the unwanted heat that builds up in your home comes in through windows." "Draperies and curtains made of tightly woven, light-colored, opaque fabrics reflect more of the sun’s rays than they let through. The tighter the curtain is against the wall around the window, the better it will prevent heat gain. Two layers of draperies improve the effectiveness of the draperies’ insulation when it is either hot or cold outside." INTERESTING! Links are below. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/15771.pdf energyenergysaver/articles/caulking.gov/

Thanks for sending me nerl.gov link. transsolar web site opens in German language. But in a strip on the front page of web site, you will find icons giving options for English and French languages. Bests, Manohar

"Relative absence of the social sciences in the climate debate is driven by specific structural and institutional controls that channel research work away from empirical relevance."

http://www.solar-facts-and-advice.com/insolation.html

http://www.c2es.org/technology/overview/buildings says, Buildings account for 39% of US energy consumption & 38% of CO2 emissions, (Residential buildings-21% & Commercial Buildings-19%), For residential buildings HVAC 39%, Lighting 12% & Water Heating 12% account for 63%, major heads. For Commercial buildings HVAc 32%, Lighting 25% & Water-Heating 6% account for 63%, major heads. Lighting expenses can be eliminated by switch-over to LED-Solar system for lighting only purposes representing about 18.5% of energy expenditure of buildings. Of the HVAC 35.5% & Water heating 9% (Total 44.5%), slightly more than half will be reduced. Thus 22.5% & 18.5%.i.e. 41% of total energy expenditure of buildings will be reduced.

Thank You Sir.

India's PM Mr. Modi recently announced Global/International Solar Alliance with HQ to be set up at Delhi. This is welcome initiative & countries in temperate climate zone should actively foster utilization of solar insolation by countries in & around the equator with higher quantities of sunlight reaching the earth surface.